linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] SLUB: remove hard coded magic numbers from resiliency

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Message-Id: <1350145885-6099-2-git-send-email-richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Date:	Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:31:24 +0100
From:	Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] SLUB: remove hard coded magic numbers from resiliency_test

Use the always inlined function kmalloc_index to translate
sizes to indexes, so that we don't have to have the slab indexes
hard coded in two places.



Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
---
 mm/slub.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 2fdd96f..804ac42 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -4418,7 +4418,7 @@ static void resiliency_test(void)
 	printk(KERN_ERR "\n1. kmalloc-16: Clobber Redzone/next pointer"
 			" 0x12->0x%p\n\n", p + 16);
 
-	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[4]);
+	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[kmalloc_index(16)]);
 
 	/* Hmmm... The next two are dangerous */
 	p = kzalloc(32, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -4428,7 +4428,7 @@ static void resiliency_test(void)
 	printk(KERN_ERR
 		"If allocated object is overwritten then not detectable\n\n");
 
-	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[5]);
+	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[kmalloc_index(32)]);
 	p = kzalloc(64, GFP_KERNEL);
 	p += 64 + (get_cycles() & 0xff) * sizeof(void *);
 	*p = 0x56;
@@ -4436,27 +4436,27 @@ static void resiliency_test(void)
 									p);
 	printk(KERN_ERR
 		"If allocated object is overwritten then not detectable\n\n");
-	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[6]);
+	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[kmalloc_index(64)]);
 
 	printk(KERN_ERR "\nB. Corruption after free\n");
 	p = kzalloc(128, GFP_KERNEL);
 	kfree(p);
 	*p = 0x78;
 	printk(KERN_ERR "1. kmalloc-128: Clobber first word 0x78->0x%p\n\n", p);
-	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[7]);
+	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[kmalloc_index(128)]);
 
 	p = kzalloc(256, GFP_KERNEL);
 	kfree(p);
 	p[50] = 0x9a;
 	printk(KERN_ERR "\n2. kmalloc-256: Clobber 50th byte 0x9a->0x%p\n\n",
 			p);
-	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[8]);
+	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[kmalloc_index(256)]);
 
 	p = kzalloc(512, GFP_KERNEL);
 	kfree(p);
 	p[512] = 0xab;
 	printk(KERN_ERR "\n3. kmalloc-512: Clobber redzone 0xab->0x%p\n\n", p);
-	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[9]);
+	validate_slab_cache(kmalloc_caches[kmalloc_index(512)]);
 }
 #else
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
-- 
1.7.11.7

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